Quotes of: Folk-songs Keyword

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Holly Near

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.

Mahalia Jackson

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Lars Ulrich

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Tecumseh

I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

Bono

No one can attack you when you're songwriting; it's you and a song, which is a great place to be.

Gin Wigmore

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

Marty Robbins

I'm not Prince or Rivers Cuomo, who brags about having hundreds of great songs.

Trent Reznor

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

Dorothy Fields

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

Taylor Swift

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

Neil Innes

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

Wes Borland

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

Dave Matthews

The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.

Katy Perry

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

David Crosby

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.

Kiri Te Kanawa

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

Mary J. Blige

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Natasha Bedingfield

'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.

Rita Ora

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

Stefano Langone